Netwar English

affix westwards [suffix of verbs.]

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

affix eastwards [suffix of verbs.]

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

verb burn [of food made directly in fire.]

Example: guid:fd343149-0e7d-4acc-a0d7-387a1e9f02c2

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

verb swim

Example: guid:8902c10d-415f-4bd0-9ca7-65535f51305e

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

verb shout

Example: guid:a40cdda9-250c-4bfd-84cb-a67823621111

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

verb spin [head.]

Example: guid:d901caeb-d17c-424c-9001-017b54bd8a97

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

verb pluck [deplume.]

Example: guid:fb340106-7684-4f08-ccce-360e6718a016

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

adjective green

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

verb better [be.]

Example: guid:c3e12367-66df-4e20-873d-1cccbfb425a9

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

verb bald [be.]

Example: guid:8372abc9-ea46-4555-ba30-86e4af972fb2

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

verb watch

Example: guid:9b7aa7bf-3e20-42a1-878c-cdf60dd0418f

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

affix [negative pref. and suff.]

Example: rasmatakan

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

verb cry

Example: guid:5a65f8b9-b1f8-4d83-8211-50c41cf243de

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

verb shine

Example: guid:abeb612c-06e7-4377-b82b-213f11631732

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

verb straight

Example: nakharan ratuatu

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

phrase Show me!

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

noun before [in time, abbr. {link guid="df99ef4d-914c-4f38-8834-127495a62b45"}aupaniken{/link}.]

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

noun before [in time.]

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

verb thirsty [be.]

Example: guid:0309918d-c9a6-424c-bc01-583f222734dc

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

common expression purification [lit. "sit down to water". Ritual everyday washing of young boys after circumcision during {link guid="00c808a6-b76b-46d1-9a02-7dba959efc4e"}kaur{/link} in villages on the seashore, where boys would go washing themselves t

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

verb tell

Example: guid:85f5ca99-0258-4379-b8bb-0a79b6037e09

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

verb translate

Example: guid:1f20cd96-cf82-4c27-831a-cb8e9e94768d

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

phrase I am going up. [e.g. to Ipai, Lowkweria etc.]

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

phrase I don’t want to sing.

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

verb hard [task, work.]

Example: wok riakes

phrase I love you so much.

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

phrase I would like to eat a banana.

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

phrase I am breaking dry wood for fire.

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

phrase I am not touching it!

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

phrase I am teaching computer classes at Lowanatom.

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

verb touch

Example: guid:92e557b7-042d-4673-bc69-ed2d9033bc55

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

noun squid

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

phrase I am sad that it is raining. [lit. "I do not like that it is raining".]

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

phrase I twitched when Iata shouted aloud.

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

phrase An asthmatic person.

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

proper name Aneityum [ancient term of the island.]

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

pronoun

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

phrase I am tired.

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

phrase I am listening to what you are saying.

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

noun store [lit. "place where they distribute things".]

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

pronoun you [three.]

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

verb yawn

Example: guid:fbaaa756-7684-4f08-ccce-360e6718a016

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

noun stick of stone [term describing clubs made of stone. According to the elders, these were once arms used in tribal wars.]

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

noun arm band [worn on upper arm along with {link guid="554240cd-95e0-4611-8a65-77ee55227b6b"}numa le Nesé{/link} leaves during customary celebrations.]

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

phrase Eat the ripe bananas.

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

proper name god [supreme god dwelling on mount Tukosmera.]

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

phrase The child drinks milk of his mother and his belly is well rounded.

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

phrase The baby coughs as it is sick.

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

proper name star [position unknown.]

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

noun dance [belonging to the family of {link guid="e6cc2a1d-0195-42d5-a4dd-c3072d507159"}naléwa{/link}.]

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

article a [indefinite article, follows the name.]

Example: guid:b883d5da-8a6d-4b9c-a5f0-55a1767fe921

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

noun village [with locative pref.]

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

noun spider web

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

phrase The car turned left.

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

verb come back

Example: guid:cbf6b3e9-06d1-4b53-82e6-dcc306fd38c7

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

noun sky

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

affix [pref. of verbs indicating that the subject is the same as in the previous verb.]

Example: guid:f4d3daa1-2360-4e94-84c9-08ae14d9308e

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

noun game [played during night, when two groups hide food in the forest and then search for each other’s food. Is played at time of planting yams.]

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

noun money

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

affix [pref. of imperative or request towards a 3rd person.]

Example: guid:3daa92b2-8646-4f21-bfaa-944636888b59

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

verb ripe

Example: guid:b14dc4b6-4f3f-466e-9a33-1f1069b844f1

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

proper name Moon

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

verb bright [be.]

Example: guid:e46c0c0b-f025-4ca0-a216-999cf261abc5

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

verb warm [up, reheat.]

Example: guid:53de556a-4afc-4c3b-b9be-57acec6e80bb

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

noun feather [colored, worn in hair by men and women during customary celebrations.]

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

phrase A goat pulling a horse. [expression applying to a person, who is hiding his real intention (a big thing, the "horse") behind an innocent excuse (a small thing, the "goat").]

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

noun garden magician [person in charge of a {link guid="4cfcd110-b385-4c0f-a403-b0c7278c1fba"}kawar{/link} and of good crop. {link guid="b104673f-3dcc-4387-8b8e-ce7a3327fa5a" type="cf" transkey="cf."}ieramara{/link} and

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

noun mourning [ancient term for {link guid="be438a28-451b-4044-afd9-d9d237968226"}nalu{/link}.]

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

noun dance

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

phrase People are singing.

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

noun offspring [of human or animal.]

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

adjective poor [person without wealth, fig. sense, a child before the end of circumcision and burning of {link guid="04527da8-628f-4b15-adae-5db1b0ce8271"}nases{/link} tree does not have any property.]

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

noun lightning

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

noun prayer

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

verb unable to speak [be, because of being sick or having shouted too much.]

Example: guid:d5cc9b95-297c-4eff-b307-73f6c3700234

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

noun

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

noun

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

noun time

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

noun canoe [a shape in {link guid="cb049dae-aa9c-4b1a-b25a-33fb601e9efd"}kemal{/link} game.]

noun hut [a shape in {link guid="cb049dae-aa9c-4b1a-b25a-33fb601e9efd"}kemal{/link} game.]

noun staff [made of a special wood and used for the {link guid="cd45eb74-5bda-48eb-964c-e5258bb94cd8"}toka{/link} dance.]

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

noun dance [kind of important dance performed during the celebration of {link guid="44390adb-772b-4a8d-a5b7-33d8e3420506"}nekowiar{/link}. The first in the order of dances. lit. "leg of a pig".]

noun sea [close to the reefs.]

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

noun volunteer [white foreigner, humanitarian worker of organizations such as Peace Corps.]

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

noun maggot [smaller and younger maggots of this species, 1st stage. {link guid="2148aaa5-3c74-4b80-b501-e087406e6d91" type="cf" transkey="cf."}prisin{/link}.]

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

phrase Where does he live?

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

noun shaving [small ceremony with kava offering and {link guid="17954013-b9ee-4e00-82f5-b2d9b2d36257"}temahwa{/link} at the moment of first shaving of a boy. From this moment he can take a wife.]

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

common expression it is not that ... [one of expressions used for forming negative phrases.]

Example: guid:6e8e3cac-72d4-41be-aa53-ae496a4a15f1

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

noun tide [at its minimum.]

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

phrase I will see you tomorrow.

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

phrase I will take your picture.

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

phrase I am not poor. [lit. "One cannot say I am poor."]

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

noun dance [kind of customary dance.]

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

pronoun my

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

phrase Tomorrow I will go to dance to Lowkweria.

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

proper name Tanna [island.]

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

noun dance [kind of important dance performed during the celebration of {link guid="44390adb-772b-4a8d-a5b7-33d8e3420506"}nekowiar{/link}. The third in the order of dances, danced in the time, when {link guid="60eec9f1-b630-425e-8990-6807284b11a

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

phrase The young man is slow to understand.

verb cook [on fire.]

Example: guid:0dc499f8-8153-4386-93ea-7a2368f97ba5

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

verb leave

Example: guid:bf46a979-9636-4c45-8e97-77564dddcdea

Speaker: Nöel Yeru